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Millennium Surfing

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ADoF writing notes: Generation

Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. A Day Of Faces grew out of a simple, daft “what if?” concept: what would happen if everybody born on the same day looked the same? It’s since become something a bit more Read more…

By Simon Jones, 10 yearsMay 11, 2015 ago
Writing

Editing 3000 words out of a 15k story

These things take a while. According to my revision log, I started writing Millennium Surfing in January 2013. That is months and months earlier than I remembered. The first draft was completed in July 2014, making it an absurdly long gestation period for a short story – albeit quite a long one. Read more…

By Simon Jones, 10 years ago
Writing

My first novelette: Millennium Surfing complete!

According to this page on Wikipedia, most genre awards classify a novelette as being between 7,500 and 17,500 words, while a novella goes from there up to about 40,000 words. Presumably anything below 7,500 is a simple old short story. Going by this definition, the short story I just finished writing, Read more…

By Simon Jones, 11 years ago
Writing

Millennium Surfing: new short story in the works

I’m quite excited about this one. Set roughly in the same universe as Wikimoku, Millennium Surfing is an enormous leap into humanity’s future, courtesy of a jaded sort-of time traveler. It employs only slight dubious science to catapult the protagonist through the entire future history of mankind, which, as you Read more…

By Simon Jones, 11 years ago
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